[CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia

Mon Jul 6 07:15:26 UTC 2015
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

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On 06/07/15 09:07, Matthew Taylor wrote:
> 
> On 6/07/2015 16:45, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 03/07/15 08:31, Seamus
> Ryan wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I was just wondering if there is something funny going on
>>>> with msync.centos.org’s availability within Australia. I see
>>>> it is geo-load balanced to various places around the world,
>>>> but in particular in Australia we are (in many cases) sent
>>>> to
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 103.18.205.7 - 7-205-18-103.static.glovine.com.au
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> That’s all well and good, but a quick look at 
>>>> http://mirror-status.centos.org/ reveals quite a few of the 
>>>> Australian mirrors have been all over the place over the last
>>>> few weeks, which would somewhat suggest something is up with
>>>> this mirror source?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Any clues?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Seamus
>>>> 
> Well, that machine is the only msync node we have for Oceania (and
> is located in Australia), so that's normal that you're redirected
> to that node. But as it's currently the only node we have there,
> some other nodes from other countries were also put in the same
> list. I can investigate, and directly just point all .au (or nodes
> Oceania) to just a single node, and see how it goes, and if the
> available bandwidth on that single node is enough or not.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> It's probably worth a shot just pointing all .au nodes to the
> current msync node purely for troubleshooting.. assuming there
> isn't any problems should the msync node go offline..?
> 
> Matt.

Yes, and also we can also quickly (from a monitoring point of view),
always push changes to the pdns/geoip backend if needed, to redirect
to other nodes if needed.


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Fabian Arrotin
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